Web
Marketing Ezine
May
14th., 2003 Issue
#223
ISSN 1444-2027
Contents
1. Sponsor's Message
2. First Word
3. Tips, Tools, News and Views
- How
Fast Is Your Internet Connection?
- Good
Question: What's The 'C' in CSS?
- Cluetrain
Manifesto Theses #34, #35
- USA
Small Business Administration PRO-Net
- Getting
Even With An Illegal Telemarketer
-
Free Training
Course of the Week: Search Engine Masters Course
-
E-Commerce
Term of the Week: Superstitial
4. A Touch of Humor: You'll
Have To Go
5.
Classified Ads
6. Free Training Courses
7. Feature Articles:
- Write
Your Sales Copy For Scanners
- Marketing
Strategy
- Has
The Web Gone Local?
-
Email Marketing How-To
8. Administrivia
1. Top Sponsor's Message
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2.
First Word
Hi
All!
It
has been said that the only thing that is constant, is change. Over the years,
we have modified the contents and presentation of Web Marketing Ezine numerous
times, always with our readers in mind. Now it's time to revisit how we serve
you once more.
As
you know, we've moved from emailing the full text version of the ezine, to
sending a notice that the new issue is online, and including a table of Contents
for easy perusal. The vastly reduced file size has been appreciated by many
readers, but another theme has been running through our emails for a while.
While Web Marketing Ezine is enjoyed by many in its current form, many others
find it "too much in one dose". They complain that they put WME aside
"till later", but somehow never get around to reading it.
Many
of our readers run their own businesses, and time is at a premium for them. As
any good business should with it's customers, we're listening to you!
At
the moment, we publish the full ezine each fortnight, and a new item may take up
to a month to reach publication. The suggestion has been made by a number of
readers that we change our format this way... As we find something interesting,
we let you know straight away. This may be a number of emails a week, but
they'll be "bite-sized chunks", and the email's Subject: field
will tell you whether the subject is of interest to you, or not. Click, or
Flick!
Starting
now, we're going to give this format a trial, and see how you and your
fellow readers like it! We'll also add the items to a web page as we go- sort of
like a Blog. That way, all the items can be visited, and searched for, just as
now.
I
hope that this change serves you better than the current system. Give it a
couple of weeks, and let me know what you think. As always, your input will be
appreciated.
Thought
For the Week:
"Change
does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change."
- Henry
Steele Commager
Till next time,
John
3. Tips, Tools, News and
Views
How
Fast Is Your Internet Connection?
Time
is money, and time wasted with poor Internet connections costs real money. A
recent survey showed that testing a number of broadband services that nominally
offered the same speed connection, showed widely varying results in practice.
Here's
a place where you can check
the speed of your internet connection.
Good
Question: What's The 'C' in CSS?
Cascading
Style Sheets are a great way to control the layout of your webpages. But what
the heck does the 'Cascading' part mean? Dennis Gaskill (aka Boogie Jack) has an
excellent explanation...
"Sometimes people create pages with conflicting code. This happens with CSS as well as HTML. The "cascading" part refers to how a browser determines which style rule to follow in the event of conflicting styles.
For example, you may have a linked style sheet coded to display all <.h1> tags in red text. On your page, you may have coded an <.h1> tag to be displayed in blue text. A browser needs a way to determine which of the conflicting rules takes precedence. Thus, cascading styles is the conflict resolution mechanism. That simply means that there is a hierarchical order to determine which of the conflicting rules will be used to display the page element in conflict.
The order of importance is:
1) ! important
This can be added to any style rule, and nothing will override it. An example of usage: h3 {color: red ! important}
2) Origin of Rules
Both the web page author and the web page reader can specify style sheets. A reader may have poor vision, so creates a style sheet that renders text larger than normal. When rules between author and reader conflict, the author's rule will win over the reader's rule of equal weight.
However, if the reader makes a rule important, it will override the author's rule unless the author also made his rule important. That's why you should use caution in marking rules with an important designation.
3) Inline Styles
Inline styles win out over embedded and linked styles.
4) Embedded Styles
Embedded styles win out over linked styles.
5) Linked Styles
Linked styles are wimps, they only come out to play when no other styles challenge them. :o)
6) Specificity
If the previous conflict resolution hierarchy hasn't yet solved the problem, conflicting styles can be resolved based on specificity. The more specific style wins out over a less specific one.
7) Order of Specification
As a last resort, when all other conflict resolution specifications cannot determine which style should take precedence, the last style specified will be used."
To
learn more about CSS, I'd recommend a visit to Dennis' CSS
Tutorials. While you're there, why not check out, and subscribe to one of my
favorite ezines- Dennis' award-winning 'Almost
A Newsletter'?
Cluetrain
Manifesto Theses #34, #35
"To
speak with a human voice, companies must share the concerns of their
communities."
"But
first, they must belong to a community."
Read
the whole Cluetrain
Manifesto at http://www.webmarketingezine.com/cluetrain.htm
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USA
Small Business Administration PRO-Net
If
you have a business in the US, you should be registered with, and use PRO-Net.
"What
IS PRO-Net? Pro-Net is an electronic gateway of procurement information -- for and about small businesses. It is a search engine for contracting officers, a marketing tool for small firms and a "link" to procurement opportunities and important information. It is designed to be a "virtual" one-stop-procurement-shop.
A Search Engine...
Pro-Net is an Internet-based database of information on more than 195,000 small, disadvantaged, 8(a), HUBZone, and women-owned businesses. It is free to federal and state government agencies as well as prime and other contractors seeking small business contractors, subcontractors and/or partnership opportunities. Pro-Net is open to all small firms seeking federal, state and private contracts.
Businesses profiled on the Pro-Net system can be searched by NAICS codes; key words; location; quality certifications; business type; ownership race and gender; EDI capability, etc.
A Marketing Tool...
Business profiles in the Pro-Net system include data from SBA's files and other available data bases, plus additional business and marketing information on individual firms. Businesses on the system will be responsible for updating their profiles and keeping information current.
Profiles are structured like executive business summaries, with specific data search fields that are user-friendly and designed to meet the needs of contracting officers and other potential users.
Profiles provide vendors an opportunity to put a controlled "marketing spin" on their businesses. Companies with "home-pages" can link their web site to their Pro-Net profile, creating a very powerful marketing tool.
A Link to Procurement Opportunities...
As an electronic gateway, Pro-Net provides access and is linked to the FedBizOps (FBO), agency home-pages and other sources of procurement opportunities.
The system is also linked to key sources of information, assistance and training."
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Getting
Even With An Illegal Telemarketer
"In November 2002, a telemarketer called my home in D.C. at 5:24 a.m. This is the story of how that call cost him $500."
What
follows is a fascinating chronicle of how the unhappy citizen dealt with this
most annoying intrusion. Unfortunately for the telemarketer, he was not only
web-savvy, but an attorney! Follow
the story, and you'll learn a lot!
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E-Commerce
Term of the Week: Superstitial
An online ad that launches a new browser in order to load an advertisement on your computer screen while you're browsing in another window. When you click onto a new page of content, the program plays the spot while you wait for the new Web page to load.
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4. A Touch of
Humor
You'll
Have To Go
Productivity and Unemployment Both Going Up, So...
Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) � With the latest reports showing U.S.
business productivity growing at its strongest pace in 19 years, while the
number of Americans filing for unemployment has also surged to its highest level
in 19 years, economists today concluded that everyone should be fired.
"The numbers clearly show businesses have been getting more and more out of
fewer and fewer employees," said Harvard economist Neil Fischer. "So
it doesn't take a genius to determine that employees are a drag on productivity,
and that were the economy to reach total unemployment, it would therefore reach
total productivity."
Critics immediately assailed the theory, pointing out that a similar tactic by
AT&T failed when the company cut 120 percent of its workforce to save more
money than it earns, and subsequently ceased to exist. However, Stanford
economist Rachel Horwith said the productivity postulate was different, and has
already been proven in the market.
"Just look at Enron," she said. "Some of their best-producing
units, at least on paper, had no one in them working in them at all."
Virginia-based efficiency consultant Harvey Watts, however, accused economists
of twisting the facts.
"It's absurd to say that no employees would create more, because there
would be no one left to create anything," said Watts. "No, the truth
is, we want to decrease productivity. The more people we have producing less,
the more people we'll need to produce what we need. So as soon as production
stops, boom, you have full employment."
Watts conceded he frequently consults for the French government.
Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan argued both
interpretations could lead to disaster. "If people don't have jobs, they
can't buy what's produced, and vice versa," he said. "So the bottom
line is, if no one really wants what you're producing, then there's no point in
making it."
In response, ABC cancelled its entire fall lineup.
- Copyright � 2002, SatireWire
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